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Meanwhile, at NYU, she has wasted no time incorporating her love of literature into major projects. She recently adapted The Scarlet Letter into a play and wrote a book called The Birth of Pleasure, using both psychology and literature as evidence to show how pleasure is associated with pain in Western culture...
...told the crowd about The Birth of Pleasure and about her conclusion that pleasure is mixed with pain in Western culture...
...Toronto has found that gay men are more likely than either lesbians or heterosexual men to have older brothers (but not older sisters). He has since confirmed this observation in 14 samples from many places. Something about occupying a womb that has held other boys occasionally results in reduced birth weight, a larger placenta and a greater probability of homosexuality. That something, Blanchard suspects, is an immune reaction in the mother, primed by the first male fetus, that grows stronger with each male pregnancy. Perhaps the immune response affects the expression of key genes during brain development...
...scoured the outer reaches of the festival, you can find weird extravagance in an Asian film. The Directors' Fortnight presented Takashi Miike's latest outrage, Gozu, an entertaining yakuza saga that ends with the birth of a fully grown man from the womb of a woman in severe discomfort. (Sure, it's all special effects, but still...
Three years after the merger and the Institute’s birth, most alums have come to value the Institute, some converted by the compelling arguments of Radcliffe Institute Dean Drew Gilpin Faust...